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Introduction 1. ​Gloria Bigelow in Laughing Matters . . . ​ Next Gen, DVD, directed by Andrea Meyerson (US: All Out Films, 2009). 2. ​ Jake Johannsen: I Love You, DVD, directed by Emery Emery and Patrick Rea (US: No Mold Productions, 2010). 3. ​ Michael McDonald: Model Citizen, DVD, directed by Manny Rodriguez (US: Levity Productions, 2010). 4. ​Russell Peterson, Strange Bedfellows: How Late-­ Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008), 149. 5. ​Bambi Haggins, Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-­ Soul America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 5. 6. ​ Comedy Central Presents: Kristen Schaal, TV, produced by Paul Miller (California: Comedy Central, 2009). 7. ​ History of the Joke with Lewis Black, DVD, directed by Dave Greene (New York: AETN, 2008). 8. ​ Judy Gold in Voices on Antisemitism—­ A Podcast Series, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ­http://​www​.ushmm​.org​/museum​/exhibit​/focus​/antisemitism​/voices​ /transcript​ /?content=20100204 (accessed February 4, 2010). 9. ​Sean Zwagerman, Wit’s End: Women’s Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). 10. ​ Stuart Hall, “The Meaning of New Times,” in New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s, ed. Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques (London: Verso, 1990), 120. 11. ​ As I use examples of comic material throughout, I intentionally include audience response in italics. In this way, readers have a window into the exchange of humor between performer and audience. I try to limit deriving any concrete conclusions from these exchanges unless I was present for the per­ for­ mance, acquired data from audience members via surveys or talk-­ backs, or the performer commented directly on the material in question. 12. ​“Emily Levine’s Theory of Everything,” Ted, ­www​.ted​.com​/talks​/emily​_levine​_s​_ theory​ _of​ _everything​ .html (accessed August 18, 2011). 13. ​ Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms,” in Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, ed. Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner (Prince­ ton, NJ: Prince­ ton University Press, 1994), 535. Notes 246  Notes to Pages 13–22 14. ​In 1988, the Inter-­ University Program for Latino Research facilitated a working group resulting in a draft concept paper on cultural citizenship. Members of that working group included: Rina Benmayor, Richard Chabran, Richard Flores, William Flores, Ray Rocco, Renato Rosaldo, Pedro Pedraza, Blanca Silvestrini, and Rosa Torruellas. Copies of these draft concept papers are located in the archives at Hunter College. 15. ​IUP Cultural Studies Working Group, “Draft Concept Paper on Cultural Citizenship ,” unpublished working concept paper no. 2 (New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos , Hunter College, 1989), 9. Chapter 1 • Making Connections 1. ​ Stuart Hall and David Held, “Citizens and Citizenship,” in New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s, ed. Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques (London: Verso, 1990), 175. 2. ​I will draw from the second and arguably the most evolved version of the draft concept papers. Working group members generated this draft in 1988, though it was not complete until 1989. While Richard Flores did make revisions to this draft in 1991, the 1989 version reflects the latest collaborative effort to explore cultural citizenship by original working group members. IUP Cultural Studies Working Group, “Draft Concept Paper on Cultural Citizenship,” Unpublished working concept paper no. 2 (New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College, 1989). 3. ​IUP, “Draft Concept Paper,” 7. 4. ​Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 18–­ 19. 5. ​Ibid. 6. ​ William Rogers Brubaker, ed., “Introduction,” in Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Eu­ rope and North America (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989), 3. 7. ​Ibid. 8. ​ W. Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge , MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 40–­ 41. 9. ​ William V. Flores and Rina Benmayor, ed., “Introduction: Constructing Cultural Citizenship,” in Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), 12. 10. ​ William V. Flores, “Citizens vs. Citizenry: Undocumented Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship,” in Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights, eds. William V. Flores and Rina Benmayor (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), 255. 11. ​ Renato Rosaldo, “Cultural Citizenship, In­ e­ qual­ ity, and Multiculturalism,” in Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights, ed. William V. Flores and Rina Benmayor (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), 37. 12. ​ “Gay Marriage Poll: More Americans Support Marriage Equality,” Huffington Post (December 9, 2012), ­www​.huffingtonpost​.com​/2012​/12​/09...

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